The Nearly Snowless Winter Retreat

A long weekend and a trip up the mountainside to Tahoe. Once again, good friends lent us the use of their cozy cabin and My sis, her hubby, my nephew and a couple of my friends piled into cars and headed North. We expected a big snowstorm on Saturday, but were terribly dissappointed. Luckily there was barely enough snow in a meadow about ten miles from the cabin to go snowshoeing. Around the lake, however, there was no snow.

Que Sera!

What did you do for President's Day weekend?

 Lake Tahoe

 While Snowshoeing

Appparently Cujo lives in Tahoe

All of the images in this post were taken with my new lens - a 50mm 1.4. I'm still getting the hang of it, but I pretty much love it so far.

Tahoe!

For the Martin Luther King Jr Holiday Weekend, I packed up my Jeep and headed for the hills! Three hours later I pulled into the driveway of a cute little cabin tucked away in North Tahoe. I had only walked in the door and dropped my bag when in walked my dear friends Lars and Stephanie. They'd driven up from LA for the weekend. A few hours later, our friends Jamie and Nelia and their two kids Adrienne and Eli showed up too.
And then the wild rumpus began!
We played in the snow.
We slept.
We ate.
We cooked.
We played Wii.
We stayed up too late, just talking.
We sledded and snowshoed.
And we just hung out. Just like we did when we were teenagers and then twentysomethings.

And best of all, we got to actually do something we talked about doing over ten years ago.

So here's to the first of many "reunion" weekends for our little band of ragtag friends, "The DLPC."

Cheers.

The DLPC Does Tahoe (again)!

Happy New Year!

Once upon a time, a group of friends were in their late teens. They'd been friends for years and finally found themselves mobile (as in having driver's licenses, cars and gas money). One summer they all packed into a car and went camping up at Lake Tahoe. It was a grand time. (Excepting the part one friend who turned out to be a complete dilweed and stole another friend's girlfriend and alienated himself from the group forever and ever amen.)

The first night everyone camped out under the stars, on top of large boulders overlooking a large lake. The second night the guys (note please that it was not the girl's idea) putzed out and we all split a motel room.

In a moment of euphoric bliss one afternoon, someone brought up the idea that one day, when we were all growed-up, we should all buy a cabin at Tahoe together and enjoy summer weeks and winter snow trips.

Well. We're all growed up now.

Or most of us are. 

Most of the group is married and of those, most have kids. (I'm the exception to both of those things, being neither married nor a mother. [But I'm an auntie and that's all sorts of fabulous!])

And well, none of us can afford a cabin at Tahoe, even purchased as a group effort. Life is expensive. Kids and cars and homes and holidays... all cost money. And these days it seems that the same amount of money that could have purchased a good deal of life-things doesn't do so much.

But enough fretting.

Because luckily, though we can't afford things like Cabins in Tahoe, some of us have friends who can.

And so, the DLPC will be going to Tahoe in a few weeks, to enjoy a reunion/day-dreamt about cabin weekend in that mountainous terrain.

Good times ahead, people.

What sort of vacation dreams have you made come true?